A Note from the Owners: Today is Kendra’s first post as a contributor to At the Well. Be sure to welcome her in the comments! At church, I often hear the phrase “God is good all the time; All the time God is good.” And I am certain that if I went up to any…
Category Archives: Training In Truth
The Road Less Traveled
Have you ever found a metaphor for your life that just seems to fit? A metaphor so perfect that you feel a sense of peace? That someone understands? This is how I feel when I read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I love the poetry of Robert Frost for many reasons. First off,…
Glimpses of Grace
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8, NIV). My writing scrapbook is a simple three-ring binder. When I have the privilege of seeing an article, devotional, or story of mine published somewhere besides my personal blog, I print it out and save…
Why Does God Allow the Righteous to Suffer?
As Christians. we serve a loving God. Yet a life of service does not always equate a life of ease in return. When we chose to follow Christ, we chose a life of hardships and suffering. Yet we also chose a life of everlasting love. Righteous people face immense hardships. Everyday, people who are walking…
When I’m Not Enough
“I just don’t know if a man will want to marry a woman who’s done the things I’ve done.” It’s heartbreaking, really, the amount of times I’ve heard those words. They come from a variety of sources, from the girl who would have liked to save her first kiss for her husband, to the one…
Change: a Graduate’s Perspective
“Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place…New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort.” – Henry Ward Beecher I stare at the quote tucked into a corner of a page in my journal. In the last year my life has changed tremendously. I went from enjoying the freedom of homeschooling…
Unconditional Love – Everlasting Joy
Over the past month, I had been feeling melancholy and depressed. I had been upset and unsatisfied. I had not been finding joy in my family or God’s plan for it. I am nearly sixteen years old: the eldest of five children. The youngest is two and the latest is a fourteen-year-old girl whom my…
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